The terms of public service are the prerogative of the public. Fundamental among those terms; public servants are accountable to the public, and to meaningful standards of conduct and competence, at least for the eight measly hours a day that we have to "trust" them with the control over our power and our resources.

Wednesday, December 17, 2014

APS School Board Member and candidate Kathy Korte is nothing if not outspoken.

The Journal reports this morning, link, her outspokenness cost her her job at UNMH.

The scary part from my perspective, the circumstances of the firing.

"... Korte was called into (Supervisor Missy) LaBate’s office. ... Ryan Randall, director of employee and labor relations at UNMH, ... informed her that the “committee of leadership” had met “and had made a decision to separate her employment from UNMH.” (Korte was given) ...“an ultimatum, either to resign from her job at UNMH and leave the building of her own free will, or to be terminated and escorted off the premises by security.”

Ouch

Who do you suppose sits on the the "committee of leadership"? Whose fist pounds on the table last? Why is it a mystery? Why do the men and women who sit on it think it should be? It sounds creepily Orwellian.

Gee, I wonder if it will come out in discovery.

It's going to cost taxpayers a bundle.

"Facing “the humiliation of being escorted out of the building in front of her coworkers and the stigma of being terminated, she was left with no choice other than to resign,” the suit states.

According to the Journal; according to the suit;

UNM’s decision to fire her “in retaliation for her exercise of protected free speech … were intentional, malicious, wanton and willful, and undertaken in reckless disregard of and with deliberate indifference to Ms. Korte’s rights.”

The same could be said for Ms Korte's participation in Marty Esquivel, her and the board's violation of my free speech rights.

APS' decision to ban me “in retaliation for my exercise of protected free speech … were intentional, malicious, wanton and willful, and undertaken in reckless disregard of and with deliberate indifference to my rights.”

Wait til she finds out what it's like to be on the other end of suing the government and their unlimited will and resources to conduct cost is no object litigation in pursuit of their admissions of no guilt.